Assignment
Include at least six (6) credible sources appropriate to your topic and effectively use those sources as evidence to support your argument.
- Three (3) of the sources have to be scholarly articles from GCC Library.
- The other three (3) sources can be a combination of any of the following:
- Primary literary text (The Cancer Journals, Heroes and Saints, OR Home)
- A print or electronic book chapter from the GCC library
- Popular articles such as magazines or newspapers from the GCC library
- Media sources like a TED talk, YouTube video, or documentary (including ones watched in class)
- A webpage or website from a credible activist organization
- When using the open web or non-library sources, ensure they are reliable, authoritative, current, and accurate. o Anonymous sources and book reviews should not be used
Home by Call Number: 813.54 M882hISBN: 9780307594167Publication Date: 2012-05-08Frank Money and his sister Cee are profoundly lost, divided from each other and from themselves as they search for direction and hope in 1950s America. Frank joined the army to escape his too-small world, leaving behind his cherished and fragile sister. When he returns to the United States after the war, he is haunted by memories of his childhood and the horrors he witnessed abroad; it is only when he hears that Cee is in danger that his life regains the sense of purpose he had lost.
Heroes and Saints and Other Plays by Call Number: LAPL - Central LibraryISBN: 0931122740Publication Date: 1994-12-31Cherríe Moraga's play Heroes and Saints (1992) depicts a Mexican American farming community whose children are dying. Like the fruits and vegetables that grow in the surrounding fields, these deaths are produced by the agriculture industry's reliance on pesticides.
The Cancer Journals by Call Number: LAPL - Central LibraryISBN: 9780143135203Publication Date: 2020-10-13Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy.
